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Hacker News (2020)

Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been infected already
42 points • comment • may 15, 2020
Where Have All the Ammonites Gone?
42 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Map of places that Covid-19 infected have visited in S. Korea
42 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
Fmt – A Modern Formatting Library
42 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases
41 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Measuring the Cost of Regression Testing in Practice
41 points • comment • may 05, 2020
Sketching Realistic Graphs (2005)
41 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
The Man Who First Said 'Cyborg,' 50 Years Later (2010)
41 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
MS Paint IDE
41 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
Ask HN: What's an unsolved problem in your field?
41 points • comment • apr 17, 2020
Birth of BASIC (2014) [video]
41 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
How a star explosion may have shaped life on Earth (2015)
41 points • comment • may 24, 2020
Stallman's Law
41 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Finland’s Prime Minister Calls for Debate on 4-Day Work Week
41 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Covid-19 in Iceland: Violated Isolation and Infected over 100
41 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Vivaldi 3.0 is out – let us know what you think
41 points • comment • apr 22, 2020
“Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
41 points • comment • nov 17, 2020
Becoming Addiction-Free
41 points • comment • may 25, 2020
Apple added a secret button to your iPhone, and you may not have even noticed
41 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Herfindahl Index
41 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
Apple MBPr 13 M1 cinebench R23 score
41 points • comment • nov 16, 2020
Show HN: Visualizing Maps in R^3
41 points • comment • may 30, 2020
MathDeck: A math-aware search interface
41 points • comment • jun 26, 2020
Ask HN: Apple Developer Account Blocked without reason – can somebody help?
41 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Idea Napkins, a place for your brilliant ideas
41 points • comment • nov 19, 2020
Manhattan Faces a Reckoning If Working from Home Becomes the Norm
41 points • comment • may 12, 2020
Apple Is Taking Legal Action Against a Small Company Because of Its Logo
41 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
Is Cloudflare Safe Yet
41 points • comment • apr 23, 2020
Always leave the code better than you found it
41 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Centralized video conference WebRTC server available for testing
41 points • comment • may 02, 2020
Hacking the Perfect Auction
41 points • comment • nov 24, 2020
Lengthening Patent Terms by 10 Years Is the Wrong Response to Covid-19
41 points • comment • apr 25, 2020
Dancing Orchards on the I-5
41 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Off road, but not offline: How simulation helps advance Waymo Driver
41 points • comment • apr 28, 2020
Modular, composable, typed optimizations in the tagless-final style (2019)
41 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Amazon Employee in Seattle Tests Positive for Coronavirus
41 points • comment • mar 04, 2020
Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis
41 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
An Empirical Study on ARM Disassembly Tools [pdf]
41 points • comment • jun 02, 2020
Ketamine may ease depression by restoring brains sensitivity to prediction error
41 points • comment • dec 27, 2020
Tell HN: Active XSS Attack on Reddit.com
41 points • comment • apr 24, 2020
Why Proof of Stake?
41 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
'Publisher' Google ordered to pay $40k in damages for defaming Melbourne lawyer
41 points • comment • apr 30, 2020
How Aztecs Reacted to Colonial Epidemics
41 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Show HN: A Project Board built for remote teams
41 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Jabra: We know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops. Sorry, no refunds
41 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Where coronavirus hospitalizations are falling
41 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
41 points • comment • nov 13, 2020
Electricity generation using quantum dots in glass
41 points • comment • mar 06, 2020
Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok from Phones, Citing Security Risk
41 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Asia's 'murder hornet' will arrive on East Coast, are 'here to stay' experts say
41 points • comment • may 03, 2020
DHS had access to messages from Portland protesters, document shows
41 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Show HN: DatoRSS – RSS Search Engine
41 points • comment • mar 07, 2020
The Mac is not an Open Platform anymore
41 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Entropy and the NetBSD Kernel
41 points • comment • may 17, 2020
Rebuilding from scratch after a cease and desist
41 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
BlizzCon 2020 Cancelled
41 points • comment • may 26, 2020
FlauBERT and Flue: French Bert
41 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance on a $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop
41 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
Ask HN: Concepts the modern tech industry falsely believes it invented?
41 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Rules of formulating knowledge in learning (1999)
41 points • comment • mar 09, 2020
Why professors are writing crap that nobody reads
41 points • comment • aug 02, 2020
Open Source Hardware: The Rise of RISC-V
41 points • comment • mar 02, 2020
The Enigma of Gloom: On George Scialabba’s “How to Be Depressed”
41 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Coding is not ‘fun’ – it’s technically and ethically complex
41 points • comment • may 15, 2020
AdoptOpenJDK 8u265 Available
41 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
The Metronomic Cadence of Chippery from AMD
41 points • comment • mar 10, 2020
The Complexity Paradox (1998)
41 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Too Many of America’s Smartest Waste Their Talents (2018)
41 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Homemade Q-Switch for Solid State Lasers
41 points • comment • nov 10, 2020
Senate Votes to Allow FBI to Look at Your Web Browsing History Without a Warrant
41 points • comment • may 14, 2020
Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use (2014)
41 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
The Logistics of the US Census [video]
41 points • comment • mar 11, 2020
Fixing Apple's Engineering in an Hour [video]
41 points • comment • jun 22, 2020
Design systems, agile, and industrialization
41 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
Chainalysis in Action: Justice Dept Demands Forfeiture of 280 Crypto Addresses
41 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
Doordash charges $16 for a $24 pizza, so the pizzeria bought its own pizzas
41 points • comment • may 18, 2020
I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There
41 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Italian doctors forced to prioritise ICU care for those most likely to survive
41 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change – By Neil Postman, 1998
41 points • comment • dec 01, 2020
The Mystery of the Missing Bus Riders
41 points • comment • mar 13, 2020
MetaMask replaces MIT License, claims ownership of all forks
41 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Herd Immunity
41 points • comment • mar 14, 2020
Manifest V3 changes are now available to test in Microsoft Edge
41 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
First Atari Hotel to Begin Construction in Phoenix in Mid-2020
41 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
Simon's Algorithm
41 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
DEC Answers Leap Year Complaint (1983)
41 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Show HN: Runc – Compile and run C in one command
41 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
The World’s 2,153 Billionaires Are Richer Than 4.6B People, Says Oxfam
41 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Spying on floating point behavior of existing unmodified scientific applications
41 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
Coronavirus: It is time for a radical acceptance of reality
41 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Show HN: WebAssembly Calling Card – visual creativity with WASM
41 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
Show Me the Science – How to Wash Your Hands
41 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
‘We were shocked’: RAND study uncovers income shift to the top% (cont)
41 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Germany and US wrestle over coronavirus vaccine: report
41 points • comment • mar 15, 2020
Dark Mode Coming to GitHub After 7 Years
41 points • comment • nov 28, 2020
Writing with the Machine (2016)
41 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
SK-Intel NAND deal points to wider shake-up of chip sector
41 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Seneca Village Project
41 points • comment • mar 16, 2020
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid cyber onslaught
41 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
Are Heroku and Heroku-hosted sites down?
41 points • comment • mar 16, 2020